In todays episode, recorded near Felicity, CA on 9 Feb 2022, I kick off the new season of the Vancast and begin discussion of your role in your recovery. In this season of the podcast, I intend to provide an outline of key steps that have lead to my recovery. In doing this, it is not my goal to prescribe what I have done for anyone else. However, I believe these individual steps can be used to help cope, improve, and recover from intractible chronic illness(es) that are likely related to either or both of the endocannabinoid and fascial systems. The hashtagged conditions were linked to the endocannabinoid system by Neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo in publications beginning some 20 years ago. . .few MDs seem to be aware of these papers today and I have linked the most recent publication below; please print it out and take it to your doctor!

Are you already on a path to healing? If not, or if you are not progressing as quickly as you should, it's time to begin doing more. It is time to exert your best effort with a little bit of guidance. I credit becoming a vegetarian as being the first concrete step in my recovery. The benefits I felt from making this change, inspired me to try even harder and cut more vices and bad behaviours.

It is much easier to cut calories as a vegetarian and my weight loss (5' 10" and 190lbs down 155lbs) started immediately. However progress was very slow as I was not able to excercise until a few years later. Over those years, I came to appreciate how much easier it was to control my diet as a vegetarian and stay on track. There was also an explosion of vegetarian food options that have made not eating flesh easier for me; I particularly enjoy some of the soy-based "sausages."

As time passed after changing my diet, I also stopped vaping nicotine, which was a habit I developed along with drinking four espressos and several cups of coffee each morning, in order to (barely help) counteract Fentanyl. Nicotine and caffeine addiction are both fairly hard to break, but do it anyway, no excuses. I also stopped drinking alcohol. Quitting booze wasn't originally planned, but it cut out unnecessary calories. As I used alcohol less and less, I began to notice the negative effects more distinctly. Now if I drink one beer, it makes me feel a little bit ill, so I only drink a few beers a year these days, mainly for nostalgia and comraderie.

If you are in pain, you cannot begin to take responsibility for your recovery soon enough, so I strongly urge you to invest in your own body and make the necessary changes to become more healthy, whatever they may be.
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2021 unveiling video of the first fascia-focused full body plastinate:
https://youtu.be/vCzX0c_D6kY
(Unveiling begins at 11:30)

Here is Dr. Russos's most recent (2016) paper on Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/can.2016.0009

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Thank you for liking, listening and sharing! If you would like to *speak with me* one on one about surviving and exiting *chronic pain*, navigating *medical cannabis* or aspects of *minimal\vanlife*, I offer my time in 15 minute increments at a rate I will post elsewhere. I can help you with perspective on your pain, to get started healing, to survive and to stay motivated; for anything else you should seek qualified professional help, which again, I am not.

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